LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 17, 2017

demands high productivity with increased customization—often using less people power. A world where robots and humans work side by side and where self-driving cars become a reality is all part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As with any new movement, there are bright challenges. For example, Industry 4.0

Agile 96

Agile Process Manufacturing Software 96

Ganttic

JANUARY 16, 2017

Our happy customers have had their say in what they like about our resource scheduling tool. You can use custom data fields to share any kind of information with your team. You can develop a custom coloring system. There isn’t a tool in the project management or resource planning scenery that would be right for everyone.

Planning 60

Planning Software 60

Redbooth

JANUARY 26, 2017

Channel your energy better: Recently, a member of our Customer Success team created a channel in Amium to post support tickets so that the rest of the team could immediately see what customers are asking for. Bingo—we enhanced a feature and made the customer happy. I can do it next week.”

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Software Engineering Energy Software Review 70

Redbooth

JANUARY 24, 2017

The article describes our process of navigating a significant change in product direction and how it affected sales—as well as other groups within the company, such as Customer Success. Almost overnight, we moved from being on a first-name basis with our IT customers to selling to people who anonymously download our product.

Process 65

Process Planning 65

LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 30, 2017

Scale will give way to customization at a mass production speed. In a recent LiquidPlanner survey with over 100 manufacturing companies, one of the top initiatives for business was to cut costs and drive growth. Flexible processes: Some futurists are predicting that factories will be smaller, more agile. Are you ready?

Manufacturing 94

Manufacturing Lean Agile Initiating 94

LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 23, 2017

A LiquidPlanner manufacturing customer recently told us that using a 3D printer scaled a three-week process down to three days. —is a sign of Industry 4.0 technology in action. Amazon using robots in their warehouses to manage inventory is another sign (scaling a 75-minute process done by humans down to 15 minutes).

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing 2017 Process 98

Wrike

JANUARY 31, 2017

hours, there’s been a process-centric and customer-centric approach to improving business results. Business processes are basically activities that involve multiple people and resources, and lead to an outcome that produces value for the organization or its customers. What does the vendor provide for customers to educate themselves?

Software Review 44

Software Review Technical Review Process Software 44

Digite

JANUARY 10, 2017

Lack of listening leads to loss in fidelity in many stakeholder conversations, including with the customer and with the team members that he/ she manages. On the other hand, we have seen some of our customers who allow the project team members to track how they “feel” about the project and going beyond the collection of hard metrics.

Cadence 95

Cadence Construction Agile Executing 95

LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 25, 2017

Another option would be to ask your customers to provide feedback. It might be hard to approach her boss, but if you have relationships with other managers who could take your side, then that’s a route to try. Maybe she’d listen if she heard it directly from them?

Influencer 90

Influencer Construction Leadership Planning 90

Wrike

JANUARY 17, 2017

But you can’t simply ignore new developments, especially when customers and key stakeholders demand the project include them. Because IT infrastructure is made up of hardware as well as software, any change you implement must be carefully done so it doesn’t create risk for your company’s — and more importantly your customers’ — data.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Infrastructure Software Review Risk Management 40

LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 9, 2017

The good news is that once you do eliminate it, everyone benefits—your employees, the customer, and the performing organization. The tricky part is that waste can sometimes be easy to see but difficult to eliminate. The Six Sigma component seeks to make your quality consistent and to improve it to world-class level.

Manufacturing 87

Manufacturing Lean Transportation Energy 87

Digite

JANUARY 2, 2017

In agreement with the key tenets of the Agile manifesto, software is developed in ‘chunks’, maintained in a working state and regular releases to the market bring in the customer feedback needed to improve the software in future increments. Scaling Challenges in Large Programs and Organizations.

Agile 60

Agile Cadence SCRUM 2013 60

Binfire

JANUARY 16, 2017

At Binfire, when we hire developers or customer support technicians, we no longer require them to work from our offices. As an entrepreneur and owner of a software company, I know first-hand how hard it is to recruit top notch talent. About five years ago, we instituted a work from home hiring policy.

Technical Support 86

Technical Support Engineering Software 86

Herding Cats

JANUARY 1, 2017

Without a plan you don't know what done looks like - don;t believe for a moment the things will emerge and the customer will be happy about what you come up with - unless it's a research project. Not you're 5 guys at the same table with their customer and an open check book projects. So In the End.

2012 39

2012 Controlling Software Developers Software Development 39

Lynne Cazaly

JANUARY 30, 2017

I slot this activity into workshops when teams are working on strategy, design thinking, customer journeys and other tricky problems. It's one of the reasons I give groups and teams this creative and innovation thinking tool to make problems bigger. I called it: 'It's Bigger'.

Retail 53

Retail Engineering Innovation Initiating 53

Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

These estimates are critical to both developers and customers. Because of the limitations of resources, projects need to operate withing a world of limited resources, the uncertainties - both reducible and irreducible - that create risk, and the emerging attributes of all project work. This is the foundation for estimates.

Software Developers 40

Software Developers Software Development Software Software Engineering 40

LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 16, 2017

These updates are: Additional Custom Fields. More Custom Fields. Enterprise edition workspaces now have more custom fields to work with–25 project fields and 25 tasks fields to be exact! (Up Read more about custom fields here. If you’re not a LiquidPlanner customer and like what you see here, give us a try!

Lean 79

Lean Controlling Process Software 79

ActiveCollab

JANUARY 30, 2017

I currently run a small team in a digital design, development, and consulting agency called Suljam , based in UK in Peterborough’s FutureBusinessCenter. We build web and mobile applications while also doing user experience design and analytics.

Consulting 53

Consulting Estimate Controlling 53

Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 8, 2017

Demos, or showcases as they are sometimes called, are a critical ceremony when they are run effectively as they address multiple project delivery objectives in a single event including: Validating that what the team has completed to date is valuable from the perspective of their customer and other key stakeholders. committed vs. completed).

Cadence 131

Cadence Sustainability Agile Controlling 131

Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 28, 2017

Are you an independent practitioner? In the US, 1/3rd of the workforce are independents. An amazing proportion to my way of thinking. One of the advantages -- and at the same time, one of the hazards -- is that you get to fire your boss; and, you even get to select your boss.

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Binfire

JANUARY 30, 2017

For instance, proximity to customers is an important factor for salespeople. A larger talent pool: The virtual office allows you to hire the best people for the job no matter where they are located. There are often valid reasons for your employees to be located in specific areas away from the home office.

Infrastructure 73

Infrastructure Closing Software 73

Digite

JANUARY 26, 2017

Custom) Card Field Editor. The new version brings in ease and comfort of adding custom attributes for a card type using the tabular format. If you have already been using the app, do take a moment to write a review on the app store. Life just got easy for the SwiftKanban administrators in your account!

2017 60

2017 Monitoring Communications Management Lean 60

Wrike

JANUARY 12, 2017

Instead of soldiering on, the network could have been much more vigilant about gathering feedback and pivoting quickly to answer customer needs. Return to customer needs, to the requirements of your key stakeholders. All resulting in a floundering, disengaged audience. Did they conduct focus group discussions? Maybe they did.

2016 50

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 2, 2017

In practice, the Product Owner is the interface between the business, the customers, and their product related needs on one side, and the Team on the other. But if someone does care, usually the customer and those paying, then the notion of Accountability is the basis of project success. The Responsibility Assignment Matrix.

Governance 34

Governance Government Software Developers Software Development 34